Date:         Tue, 23 Aug 1994 08:11:34 -0700
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         cev@rocket.com (Charles E. Vaughan)
Subject:      Re: pre-coffee whining

>  As still a "rookie" owner, I have been learning more and more
>about NuBus' ('82) affect on other drivers. IT DRIVES THEM INSAAAANNEE.

Get used to it, you aren't mistaken!

>Two theories

Looks like 3?

> 1)Its a bunker-burner, and people can't stand the diesel exhaust

I certainly don't like diesel fumes, Vanagon or anything else.

> 2)People can't see over or around it. I actually see them driving
>   straddling the double yellow line in my side mirror.

May be.

> 3)People get *very* frustrated over slow acceleration. (Hey, I make
>   it to "speed_limit+5", but it takes a little while to get there)

Even worse, people just expect that you are slow and accelerate slowly.  In 
my Vanagon I have a much greater frequency of drivers passing me and slowing 
down in front of me, sometimes several times in a single encounter, than in 
other vehicles I drive.  Often this occurs when I am driving just as fast as 
any other car on the road.  I have a steep hill I drive just about every 
day. I can hold 50 in 3rd gear (just about the typical ambient speed).  I 
often see some Honda driver in the mirror with an "Oh no, that big lumbering 
slow thing got in front of me, now I'm gonna have to wait" reaction.  It's 
fun to steadily pull away from them on the hill.

CEV
'84 GL (slow but not that slow)